National park in Australia
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Fort Lytton National Park is a small national park, so small, that it is probably smaller than most national parks (or any park that is not your local street park) you may have been to. At only , this park nestled in the suburb of Lytton near the Port of Brisbane in Brisbane's northeast, protecting Fort Lytton, which was one of Brisbane's key defence forts in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Built in 1880, this fort was built to protect Brisbane from a naval attack, in particularly from either France, or Russia. Its significance became even greater in the Pacific War when the Brisbane was under threat from a Japanese invasion. After WWII, the fort had served its time and now it remains an important historic site in Brisbane.
A former quarantine station that was used to quarantine visitors entering Brisbane to were suspected to have disease in the early 20th century, but today now a historic site. The quarantine station has, however, had a bit of neglect, as it was once a QPWS office, and parts of it are located outside the national park.
Contains over 2000 items which are found throughout the park including in 5 buildings, 6 gun pits, 2 shelter structures and several open air locations. Admission to the museum is free, although two of the buildings (the submarine mining building and the black powder rooms) can only be accessed on guided tours. If there's a particular section that can be said to be a "must", the Old Dining Hall section contains 10,000 artifacts pertaining to Queensland's military history.
e. away from the motorway, not parallel to it) until the end of the road, which marks the start of the park.
Read in the guideAs the park is only , the only logical way to get around (which also happens to be the only way that's physically possible) is by walking the tiny park.
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